Playing With Firearms

"This," Tom Clancy said as he pulled a jet black semiautomatic rifle from his bedroom closet, "is my home defense weapon."

Clancy, who keeps his guns where most men keep their socks, handed over the HK G94 rifle. "If somebody breaks into my house and comes upstairs," he said, "it's going to be a bad career move. You can't miss with this."

This is not true. Shortly, in Clancy's basement shooting range--Clancy keeps a shooting range where most people keep their washers and dryers--I would miss with the HK G94.Read more

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